The issue of fluctuations is a great concern for everyone especially when its a negative fluctuation like the one that is being witnessed now and its perfectly right for you to conclude that this is not the right time to invest. However, when it comes to investment decisions, the most profitable investments is not always the popular ones which suggests an opportunity in the current situation. As we are speaking there are several open orders yet to be filled in various exchange platforms across the globe with someone ready to buy.

When I got the notification about the impending Bitcoin cash fork, I was just wondering what they have turn the entire fork opportunity into and in a short while, that same fork would also be made to go through another fork. The point is, they have turn everything into a joke.

I am now surprise that Roger Ver is now against the fork of his promoted Bitcoin cash despite his very potent stand when it was against bitcoin last year and the reason his simple because his influence would be diluted and the argument would then change from BCH being the real bitcoin or the forked BCH is the real bitcoin. Its obvious they have lost their ideology along the way.

On its influence on bitcoin, I think bitcoin has moved on to have an independent run away from forks and counter forks that have pervaded the entire industry in the last one year.

Every new year is filled with hope that ushers a new beginning for things that did not go right in the ending year and the crypto world would not be an exemption. But so also as we don't expect to be doing things the same way and expecting different results, it would only be a case of wishful thinking if we just hope and not back it with actions.

If I remember, around September, the attention was what would happen in December and I maintained that so far we all still continue to be skeptical in taking actions to improving the price of bitcoin, December would come and nothing would change. This is exactly what is going on and now all hope is banking on the new year.

Its just one advantage that the crypto market have made available to everyone that irrespective of the idea you have, there is always room for everyone to make something off the market whether in times of low turns of event or when things are really looking green in the ecosystem.

In my own case, I would go with the option of manual trading where I study a coin and invest in it hoping that the fortune of the coin would change for the positive from the point I got in. I have made some profits as a result of this and sometimes, you have to wait for a really long time to achieve your objective. Bots to me seems something that might sound too technical with the configuration and the follow up that needs to be done regularly in other to avoid making some real losses along the line.

When it come to the issue of tax, its not about whether you operate in a regulated environment, whether you earn salary or you ply your trade under the bridge. It also does not matter whether you are an employee or you receive money from investment what matters to government is that you are making profit and that profit should be taxed as long as you enjoy public goods directly or indirectly.

Government with all its machinery will always find a way and they don't necessarily have to unravel the anonymity as they have other means they can track whatever inflow an individual is getting and in this era of cashless environment, it cannot be any easier.

There is actually a risk here and that is the risk of not getting paid which is something bounty hunters can relate with very well and because of this, the risk embedded in this course of action is not too different from other options you have highlighted above and some times could be greater because while in others, you know the risk and there is huge assurance that the amount you will gain is coming for certain but in the case of bounty, the chance of zero bounty is higher than others as the bounty might be a scam, the project failed to raise the required milestone thereby necessitating a cancellation or even being paid but the payment is worthless eventually couple with the amount of time you have to wait to get paid in the first place.

You have come to a forum and ask about a service provider for escrow where the forum itself is full of people who have distinguished themselves in terms of honesty and integrity also in the art of trade for you to choose from. They are even real people that value their names and I don't think the value of your intended trade is more than the total value of what Ognasty have escrowed since joining the forum. The point I am trying to make is that you are better off dealing with people than a site and some of the posts I have seen are kind of advising you to go ahead but the point is if it turns out to be scam, it would surprise you that those advising you are equally the ones behind the site.

To conclude that the bear does not have at momentum to pull price down would be an overreaching assumption because as at few weeks ago, the price was gradually going beyond the $6,500 and everyone thinks there bear was truly over and would have thought the same way before another pulling down happened resulting in $6,300 which price is currently recovering from and the hope is for it to be sustained. The point is, anyone that can afford it should go for it as every period comes with its own opportunity and not because there is no going down again or not.

Its being a while since I read about controversy surrounding this ETF of a thing and the house is surely divided along two sides. While some are of the opinion that the best thing that could hapen to crypto especially bitcoin is thee approval of ETFs now I am reading here that the worst thing that we could hope for is the ETFs. While both sides could be right in their respective arguments, I am also of the opinion that its not something that can be stopped because eventually, the determinant of whether its going to either bring the woe to the market or not depends on SEC.

But what we can do is to stop further support to it which comes in the minute form such as creating threads about it, reporting news about it, announcing the filing or rejection about it or even participating in polls about ETF.

Just like I have always maintained, most of this predicters are celebrity analysts who only want to be in the news for airing their views as doing that would ensure that they are counted among the popular faces in the crypto community whereas its just fables. I have not seen the head of say Goldman or Bank of America coming out to say this price of its shares would attain a particular dollars in the next quarter as that would be violating the rules of the market that they operate and could be sanctioned for even attempting to manipulate the market and being vocal about it to the entire world. But in crypto, everything goes, no caution, no ethics, no conducts.

My condolence goes to the people who sees them as their determinant of their investment decisions because at the end you will be the one to lose eventually as nothing touches their own investments.

On the other hand, it might be due to the reduction in adoption that have made the price of bitcoin be less volatile at this time. Because at the time when the price of bitcoin as touching $15,000 the massive publicity that greeted that was overwhelming both the positive ones and the negative ones which led to more people buying and more increase in the price of bitcoin but when the tides changes, coming with bans or regulated advertisement from various social media platforms, government cracking down on crypto currencies, top influencers in the world of finance ranging from CEOs, to entrepreneurs and legends making some statements on the contrary, the adoption movement began to suffer some serious setbacks which is what the market is yet to recover from.

Japan has always been open to crypto currency which is why I am not surprised by this move which is towards encouraging the continued penetration of crypto and at the same time that people should not perceive some undue interference from the government. Seeing this from other countries, I will not be too optimistic about that as most governments primary objective is control which is why most of them have remained on the fence as it relates to crypto so coming with self regulation as a way is not something I am seeing happening anytime soon.

Since the beginning of time and till the end of time, bank would always be involved in money laundering and the reason is simple its the one that is allowed to keep the fund would also be charged with the responsibility of moving it. Money laundering when looked deeply on a high scale is a corporate lucrative business for bank executives because they know the loop holes and abandoned diplomatic accounts that can be used for such transactions while they take their own cut without any noise.

The worse that would happen is for the authority to fine them as they become more careful to be caught the next time. They are too important to the economy to be sent out of business because of regulatory issues.

Several factors would be responsible for anyone to choose and I won't want you to base your decision on the numbers of people who chose a particular option compared to the other one. The reason is simple, the conditions of the economy we are residing and our personal attitude to risk would go a long way in determining the option we would go with.

For me, I would focus on crypto currencies because it really does not need my attention 100% compared to setting up a business that one will have to invest lots of energy to get it to break even talk less of start making profit. In doing that, I can then invest my time in getting a day job in other to get the necessary experience needed to run a successful business along the line after building my profile in the corporate world with the right loyal client base, I can then switch to being an entrepreneur.

In saying that bitcoin is a stable coin would be making a conclusion on the basis of current happenings which is not permanent. Yes current situations have shown that bitcoin is showing signs of being a stable coin but that does not make it one. The margin we seen in the last couple of weeks have been +or- $100 but its a moment that I believe would likely pass very soon because stability at this time is saying bitcoin has grown to maturity without any for further growth and that is really far from reality.

Its really disappointing to see things like this happening in the crypto world because not only does it limit the chance of other startups from breaking even in record time, it brings disrepute to the entire market that anyone can launch and then scam with little or no consequence which is what we don't need in the market at this time.

The motive behind small exchange sites is based on the objectives of the promoters. Agreed that they might have some amount of challenges in terms of liquidity but not enough to then cart away investors fund. Return their money then go back to the drawing board to re-strategize then come back. The reputation would still be intact and this time, enough to spread to the market easily.

You have raised a valid point though and the answer to your question is the objective of the bounty/airdrop exercise. Some bounty exercise is not no make rich and not to make payment but for publicity which is their primary motive and the moment that is achieved, every other interests becomes secondary which demands no attention which is why after they must have allocated certain percentage to a section of the publicity, they continue to recruit because the higher the number of people that enrolled, the higher they get the message out which is them achieving their objective.

The solution however, is to study the project beyond the nice and flashy ANN to the very tiny details about the salient conditions of the payment structure then decide whether to join in or not. And if you realise that it won't worth your time, then don't join and look for something else to do.

2018 is just few weeks to be over which gives quite a number of countries that relies on budgetary system to get a chance to start over by correcting some of the mistakes made in 2018 and also solidify some of the areas they got right and up till this moment, I have not read about any country that have declared bankruptcy in the world.

There is nothing wrong with countries trying as much as possible to gather whether oil, gold, bitumen, or any material in other to maximize their power over other nations. Its simply a capitalist world that everyone is trying to outshine the other and it does not directly means there is a crisis coming ahead.

A lot of people have argued about Craig not having 1 million bitcoins. The basis for that is what I don't know since bitcoin wallet does not have names attached to it to rightly claim it belongs to a particular individual. If Craig did not dump, the real issue is can the dumping of 1million bitcoins crash the market and that should really be the subject of discussion and its obvious its going to cause a lot of damage to the already staggering price which is equally showing to the whole world that to give a final blow to the popularity of bitcoin, dump 1 million coins.

No master the news, the real determinant about whether it would lead a bull run or just does not have any effect is on the basis of the reaction the community has for it which based on the time it launched and now, I don't see anyone taking it serious

This prediction is surely out of reality because even though people are optimistic is seeing a turn around in price, I don't see this happening at all and it would be a huge believe to have this before the year end.


Maybe when this eventually happens, because one unique thing that push the price of ETH to that high point aside the overall boom in the market was the tokens which has now dwindled because of the general perception of ICOs.